Masonry Magazine August 2002 Page. 37
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The Voice of the Mason Contractor
August 2002
Masonry 35
Some way by knowing that so many people were killed on September 11th. Being able to put a building back that was part of that horrible situation is a very positive thing. They were doing something very positive with their minds and hands. Probably a lot of people would like to do that if they had the chance."
The first truckload was ready the first week of December, and Bybee was done with everything by mid-April. There were 45 truckloads of stone in all. The first of the new stones was placed on February 25, 2002; the last regular stone was set on June 7. On June 11, a memorial capstone was inserted near ground level, covering a time capsule. This was one of the smoke-stained limestone blocks from the impact area, with the date of the attack carved in it.
"In the area where the plane actually went in, they took whatever was on the building that they could still use and we just filled in certain holes where they couldn't find a piece of stone from the original wall that worked."
In the end, 14,273 cubic feet of Indiana limestone-about 2.1 million pounds-came through Bybee Stone and left in the form of slabs, lintels, cornice and other shapes. Among them was one very special stone. Will Bybee explains, "It's a tradition, especially for high profile projects, like the Washington Cathedral, that a stonecutter will put his name on it when he finishes. We have all our guys put their name or initials on every piece of stone so if we have a problem on the site we know who cut the piece. In this case, the idea was to use one of President Bush's quotes and let each of the stonecutters and some of the stone planers cut one letter into it. Then we let everybody in the plant sign the back of it."
Originally, that piece was going to end up in the building façade. That's all changed. The stone that the Bybee crew carved was stored at the worksite and, even though protected from vandalism by a fence, attracted attention. Soon other workers wanted to add their names and the stone took on a whole new meaning to those on The Phoenix Project. The stone was installed in the Pentagon's first floor escalator lobby, Wedge 1 near corridor 4 where the plane hit.
With somewhat typical Midwestern modesty, Bybee says, "We really didn't send it over there to do anything but go into the building. We still have a lot of work to do on the Pentagon [the Metro entrance contract), and that's our concern now."
He then sums up the thoughts of his workers and himself. "I'd be pretty callous not to be affected by working on this project. In our company, we do this work all the time it just becomes second nature and we don't think too much about the building it will go on. We work on a lot of buildings that have some historical significance but in this case, we're very lucky to be in a position that we could do this job, and we've tried to do good work that's going to be around for a long time. Basically, it was just an honor to be able to put that building back into shape."
As Rick Rentschler, a stonecutter at Bybee Stone told Peno-Marina of the Post, "It's not the fanciest building, but it's a nice building, and it's an honor. Those other jobs, they were jobs. This is personal."